Describe awiyao and lumnay's house. Describe the presence of light and darkness in the story?
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The symbolic meaning of light and darkness play the central role in the novel Heart of Darkness. If we try to see the meaning of light it means bright, knowledge, capable in every field, life, perfection, etc. and Darkness, on the other hand, refers to dark, illiteracy, death, ignorance, inability etc.
1. Be an Anthropologist, describe the culture of the people and the political and social systems in the story. Describe family values, gender roles, economic systems.
2. Describe Awiyao and Lumnay's house. Describe the presense of light and darkness in the story.
3. Describe Awiyao and Lumnay.
4. Read this following paragraph, what was Lumnay thinking?
"It is not right. It is not right!" she cried. "How does she know? How can anybody know? It is not right," she said.
Suddenly she found courage. She would go to the dance. She would go to the chief of the village, to the elders, to tell them it was not right. Awiyao was hers; nobody could take him away from her. Let her be the first woman to complain, to denounce the unwritten rule that a man may take another woman. She would tell Awiyao to come back to her. He surely would relent. Was not their love as strong as the
river?
5. After reading the story, in what ways toward your attitude toward Lumnay and Madulimay -different?
6. If you were Lumnay, what would you do? Can you justify her behaviour throughout the story? Explain